The Congress, representing the will of the people as their reps, has the most power of three branches. The president is technically elected by the states via the Electoral College unlike Congressional representatives.

The president is supposed to answer to Congress. The purpose was not to have an exectuive wielding the power of a king or a tyrant, which the US founding fathers were worried about.

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Amezarak an hour ago | parent [-]

Actually, the founding fathers were mostly worried about the President being dependent on Congress. They were very worried about that and didn’t want him to be! That impeachment cases would be tried in Congress was very controversial and ultimately agreed to because they figured they wouldn’t become politicized.

You can read the Convention notes yourself! Don’t let other people tell you what they thought.You might be surprised! For example, many argued that the President should not be impeachable at all!

	▲	jibalt 30 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> Don’t let other people tell you what they thought. Ok, I won't let you tell me what they thought, like you just did. > My main beef with the tenor of this whole thread in general is people do not seem aware ... Such ad hominems are tiresome and more often than not are projection. You have made a number of claims here that simply aren't true. I won't respond again.